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Ignite Lean Start-Up NYC

The Tech Stars Mentor Manifesto is great advice for investors as well as mentors

Birchbox is winning with Brand (with a capital B)

Don’t cross the streams…Let me know if you have already spoken to someone else at First Round

The business may be a failure but the entrepreneur is not. Pick them up and pull them back into the community.

The health care revolution will be consumerized

Brand matters. Start-ups should think like a T-shirt company

If you invest in lean start-ups, you better build a platform

The VC product is broken for 99% of founders and I want to fix it, one meeting at a time

Boom or Bubble…(just raise enough money to stay out of trouble)

No more milestones, I mean it

Geek-er-y and narrative

Choosing an investor, the individual and the institution

In this market you grow by Recruiting, not Hiring

A question for the community: Is there no REST in a realtime world?

Judo strategy and our investment in Nodejitsu

Investing in Design

To squeeze more value out of limited resources, compress the innovation stack with (X)aaS

In the war for talent, love is a weapon

MVP > MBA @ HBS and why other business schools should create programs around Verbs, not nouns

Harvard Business School and Deciding to #beafounder

Biohazard: It’s about people not resumés

Motorcycle instincts and start-ups

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